Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave
Chris Cleaveis a British writer and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
hate anger writing
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
mean thinking people
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.
not-happy
I'm not happy with just repeating myself.
character athlete decision
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
father being-a-father
I'm a much better writer for being a father.
mean stories alive
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
little-bee refugee refuge
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
husband ocean thinking
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.
summer reality refugee
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
thinking government oil
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.
country suffering horror
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
way scar speak
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.....
moon long shining
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
girl house drug
your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.